On This Day March 8
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1860 – Folk artist Grandma Moses (d, 1861)
1936 – Rock and roll legend Buddy Holly (d. 1959)
1949 – Singer Gloria Gaynor, best known for her disco smash “I Will Survive”
1950 – Actress and voice artist Julie Kavner, best recognized as the voice of TV’s Marge Simpson
1951 – Pretenders founder and lead singer Chrissie Hynde
1954 – Actor Corbin Bernsen (“L.A. Law,” “Psych”)
1956 – Singer-pianist Michael Feinstein, known for his interpretation of the Great American Songbook
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1913 – Actor Alan Ladd (“This Gun For Hire,” “Shane”) (d. 1964)
1942 – Guitarist-singer-songwriter and Beach Boys founding member Al Jardine
1955 – Guitarist Steve Jones of The Sex Pistols
1973 – Singer Jennifer Paige, best known for her 1998 hit “Crush”
1976 – Actress Ashley Jones (“The Young and the Restless,” “True Blood”)
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1908 – Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ), 36th U.S. president (d. 1973)
1942 – Daryl Dragon, the keyboard-playing half of the Captain & Tennille (d. 2019)
1952 – Actor Paul Reubens, best known for his character Pee-wee Herman (d. 2023)
1963 – Actress, former MTV VJ and current Sirius/XM “90s on 9” host ‘Downtown’ Julie Brown
1976 – Actress Sarah Chalke (“Roseanne,” “Scrubs, “How I Met Your Mother”)
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1819 – Novelist and poet Herman Melville, best known for the literary classic “Moby-Dick” (d. 1891)
1942 – Grateful Dead founder and frontman Jerry Garcia (d. 1995)
1953 – Grammy-winning blues guitarist and singer Robert Cray
1963 – Rapper-actor Coolio, born Artis Leon Ivey, Jr.
1973 – Actress Tempestt Bledsoe, best known as Vanessa Huxtable from “The Cosby Show”
1979 – Actor Jason Momoa (“Baywatch Hawaii,” “Stargate: Atlantis,” “Game of Thrones”)
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1904 – Surrealist artist Salvador Dali (d. 1989)
1927 – Comedian and political satirist Mort Sahl, considered the first modern stand-up comedian
1941 – Rock singer-songwriter Eric Burdon, former lead vocalist for the bands The Animals and War
1959 – Former MTV VJ and Sirius XM “80s on 8” DJ Martha Quinn
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1914 – Actor Tyrone Power (“Witness for the Prosecution,” “The Mark of Zorro”) (d. 1958)
1927 – Actress Pat Carroll (“The Danny Thomas Show, “ Laverne & Shirley,” “ER”)
1945 – Former MTV music news host, Rolling Stone magazine editor, film critic and author Kurt Loder
1959 – Emmy-winning TV journalist and former “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams